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Adding Bulkheads in Living Room

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Feb 26, 2016
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Vaughan

Adding Bulkheads in Living Room

I purchased a preconstruction home. I went to check it out and noticed that they added a bulkhead on an exterior side of the wall to accommodate HVAC. By adding this bulkhead, the room is no longer symmetrical especially since I have an adjacent wall that has a floor to ceiling fireplace.

Any idea how much it would cost for a contractor to add bulkheads around the remainder of the three walls to make it symmetrical? The room is a 12'x18' rectangle and the bulkhead is on the 18' exterior wall. I believe adding bulkheads all around would make it a coffered ceiling.

They haven't drywalled it yet so I'm hoping to ask the builder to add the bulkheads but I'm anticipating a ridiculous quote so I'm trying to do research to see how much it would cost to do after.
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Feb 26, 2016
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Vaughan
cba123 wrote: It will be a lot harder to do afterwards if the ceiling is a popcorn ceiling vs a smooth ceiling.
thanks for the note. it'll be smooth ceilings so should be pretty straight forward. just a bit messy with the sanding of the drywall
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Jan 22, 2021
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My suggestion would be to just pay the cost if you can stomach it. Doing it after would be such a pain. Frame, drywall, tape, sand, prime, paint.
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Dec 31, 2007
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Richmond Hill
You could do a coffered ceiling.
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KW
Pay the builder. Get I’d done. You’re not going to save anything doing it yourself
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Feb 25, 2007
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hate all these new constructions (last 20 years or so) with bulkheads, why can't they build like before, all the HVAC inside the walls (1st and 2nd floor)
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Aug 29, 2011
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Mississauga
rogerrabbit168 wrote: hate all these new constructions (last 20 years or so) with bulkheads, why can't they build like before, all the HVAC inside the walls (1st and 2nd floor)
Because people want open concept designs and the number of interior walls available for mechanicals becomes much more limited.

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